UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn

[ilo]

Not seeds imho. they're not that closely related. why would the fruit of the plant (meta alloy) satiate the seed (UA)?

This actually made me think.. what an UA would do, if I let it scan me with a full cargo of Meta-Alloys.. :? I guess I have to try now.

 

[RedWizzard]

Well they cant be point away. Because no matter where you are at Merope. They will always point at the star.

They all align themselves on vectors that pass through the star. There is no way of telling if they are pointing at the star or away from it because how do you know which end points at something and which end points away? It's all a matter of opinion. But as I said, it doesn't actually matter.

 

[criosx]

Inbetween the Pleiades and the California Nebula there is the Perseus OB2 association with a lot of fast-moving O-type and B-type stars, as the name says. Atik is one star of this association that is about half-way between the Pleiades and the California Nebula and it is a good tourist stop-over in game. Those stars are supposed to have gotten their momentum by a supernova that also created Barnards loop. A further displaced star from this fast-moving group is Menkib that illuminates the California nebula. Look up runaway stars and you will find a list of them. While this is all interesting for this particular part of space, I do not see a link to the mystery at the moment.

I've been following a vague hunch about the UA shell, and Merope. Merope is a B type star. If you filter galmap for B types only, you see that there's a lot of them in the Plaiedes, and also that there's a trail of them that leads toward california nebula. You have to fiddle around to follow it, sometime shifting up and down. It starts strong, leads past Taurus dark region and up, then arches over and drops, coming on strong again up to California nebula. The nearest one to the nebula is HIP 18390 (image below courtesy of Nicholas Powell)

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There are a bunch of B types just outside the nebula, close together, similarly to the Pleides cluster of them. Using HIP 18390 or one of the nearby B's as the centre, I'd like to see if there's a UA shell around it. I know already some commanders are looking for a shell around California nebula, my hunch is that if there is, it will be pointing to one of these B types. Any help scouring if you're in the area would be great.

 

[frostypaw]

If UA are barnacle seeds.
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This is why crashed ships often mark barnacle locations.

I dunno if anyone answered this but has someone taken a UA and purposefully crashed their ship into a suitable type of planet?

Inbetween the Pleiades and the California Nebula there is the Perseus OB2 association with a lot of fast-moving O-type and B-type stars, as the name says. Atik is one star of this association that is about half-way between the Pleiades and the California Nebula and it is a good tourist stop-over in game. Those stars are supposed to have gotten their momentum by a supernova that also created Barnards loop. A further displaced star from this fast-moving group is Menkib that illuminates the California nebula. Look up runaway stars and you will find a list of them. While this is all interesting for this particular part of space, I do not see a link to the mystery at the moment.

Menkib is moving towards the pleiades and is the star that illuminates the California, while Merope is the brightest 'nebula' in the pleiades.... if I wasn't going on CNE i'd be eco mode travelling from Menkib to Atik to look for stuff

 

[CookieJarviz]

Here is a new theory. The reason there is a UA shell around Merope is because we need to do something there. And either A It requires a lot of UAs to do or just 1 and there is a abundance just to help OR B the devs put that shell around there to tell us "You need to do something here"

 

[Makaan]

You guys sure there's definitely still something to find in Merope? Countless people have been searching for months and nothing else....yet.

I enjoy this mystery but it seems as though it's being dragged out too much, anyone else feel like this? Or is it just cus I've been away for a couple of months....

 

[CookieJarviz]

You guys sure there's definitely still something to find in Merope? Countless people have been searching for months and nothing else....yet.

I enjoy this mystery but it seems as though it's being dragged out too much, anyone else feel like this? Or is it just cus I've been away for a couple of months....

Were looking for the Unknown Probe. Someone I think said on reddit they spotted a convoy with one but got destroyed before he could scoop it.

 

[frostypaw]

That's what concerns me about the UA's being separate - people have done very thorough searches of Merope already. Anything we do wouldn't be visible at the shell for over a hundred years....

Now that they've declared some of the game lore up for grabs I'm increasingly wondering about the whole idea of watching what went on there 135 odd years ago - and that isn't going to reflect well on us.

 

[CookieJarviz]

That's what concerns me about the UA's being separate - people have done very thorough searches of Merope already. Anything we do wouldn't be visible at the shell for over a hundred years....

Now that they've declared some of the game lore up for grabs I'm increasingly wondering about the whole idea of watching what went on there 135 odd years ago - and that isn't going to reflect well on us.

I am honestly just sick of all the games there making us play. Like I want to see an alien this year.

 

[Popov Le Magnifique]

Have you tried to dismis your ship and recalling it?
IT used to fix the canopy.

Actually, I did. ^^ They seem to have "fixed that fix", as it now only resets the timer. And I know I could just self-destruct and go back to the Witch Head Nebula but I can't...I just can't go back and forth and basically waste my time on the off chance I'll bump into a Barnacle.

What? I don't see how that is significant to the brief moment that is the history of humanity.

Speaking of that, have you seen this? http://www.drewwagar.com/elite-dangerous-saga/elite-dangerous-lore/

Well, that's disappointing. So what was the point of pursuing the Antares Incident storyline then? If past events are no longer canon, how are we supposed to get the clues? (Here speaking in general.)

 

[CookieJarviz]

So does this mean that were not supposed to know about the thargoids then? Like... if we do see them. Will it be a "First Encounter" situation? Whoever shoots them is hitler

 

[frostypaw]

So does this mean that were not supposed to know about the thargoids then? Like... if we do see them. Will it be a "First Encounter" situation? Whoever shoots them is hitler

Nobody knows anymore.

Friend or foe, war or not, mycoid or not - nobody knows.

It's getting near a sit on your hands and wait until they let us know what we as cmdrs who grew up in the game's universe would have learnt when we were 8.

 

[Tom2]

 

[CMDR Adelind]

Nobody knows anymore.

Friend or foe, war or not, mycoid or not - nobody knows.

It's getting near a sit on your hands and wait until they let us know what we as cmdrs who grew up in the game's universe would have learnt when we were 8.

Braben said during one of his recent livestreams that the Thargoid invasion in almost a myth, most don't really accept they exist. The superpowers have been carefully removing the Thargoids from public memory for centuries.

 

[Kyp Shard]

Inbetween the Pleiades and the California Nebula there is the Perseus OB2 association with a lot of fast-moving O-type and B-type stars, as the name says. Atik is one star of this association that is about half-way between the Pleiades and the California Nebula and it is a good tourist stop-over in game. Those stars are supposed to have gotten their momentum by a supernova that also created Barnards loop. A further displaced star from this fast-moving group is Menkib that illuminates the California nebula. Look up runaway stars and you will find a list of them. While this is all interesting for this particular part of space, I do not see a link to the mystery at the moment.

Atik is one of the B types in that trail to California, and one of my planned stopoffs. Currently at HR 1447, another of the B types about 2/5ths the way along. It's still in the shell (found a UA) and has barnacle candidate planets (although I don't really think I'll find one here). Currently browsing along the canyons, which have all the right properties for barnacles, including the 'seismic' soundscape.

On a side-note - has the UA soundscape had much analysis since 2.1? It sounds quite different to me. The morse is more "phased", and there seems to be another pattern I hadn't noticed before. There's another tonal sound, always after the main morse and seeing to bracketed in it's own (slower) chitter like the main morse is. The sound is beeps in low and high tones. Mostly in threes, sometimes a few sets of them in each full cycle. I took data from 21 cycles.

 

[Han_Zen]

So does this mean that were not supposed to know about the thargoids then? Like... if we do see them. Will it be a "First Encounter" situation? Whoever shoots them is hitler

They have been mentioned in Galnet. The post even suggested som form of communication abuot 50 years ago.

 

[CookieJarviz]

I think I might take a break. Were basicly at a dead end. And Micheal has been quiet for quite a while. The Unknown Probe is almost no existent. and to top it all off the lore is basicly gone.

 

[NBSG-Fan]

Hi I just wanted to shortly add that the degraded emmission sign has also a potential UA scenario. There are Five rescue ships in it, with frequent communications about what happend. It´s going like "Getting some strange readings from the debris. I think this thing blew from the inside out." I think this is referring to the UA´s.

 

[Sterlino]

sorry if i ask it... but i can't find a post who says it.

the UAs are still pointing to Pleaides ?

 

[Privata]

I am honestly just sick of all the games there making us play. Like I want to see an alien this year.

Thats like saying ''I am sick of the gameplay I just want to watch the ending of a game''